I call Wake County, NC my home although I have lived outside of that area on several occasions during my life. I am a nurse full-time, and an amateur genealogist in my spare time. I can spend hours on ancestry sites researching long lost ancestors.

I LOVE cemeteries! They hold so much history, and it is so interesting to read the tombstones and imagine who that person might have been and the life that person might have led. My kids think I am crazy because I am so fascinated by cemeteries.

Here is a quote that I borrowed that describes it perfectly:
Cemeteries are "a memorial and a record. (They are) not a mere field in which the dead are stowed away unknown; it is a touching and beautiful history, written in family burial plots, in mounded graves, in sculptured and inscribed monuments. (They tell) the story of the past, not of its institutions, or its wars, or its ideas, but of its individual lives,--of its men and women and children, and of its household. (A cemetery) is silent, but eloquent; it is common, but it is unique. We find no such history elsewhere; there are no records in all the wide world in which we can discover so much that is suggestive, so much that is pathetic and impressive." ~~ Joseph Anderson, American clergyman (1836-1916)

My research interests are:
Carters of North Carolina, Pulley, Chilcoat, Kern, Swain, Bailey, Hayes, Buffaloe, Rogers, Kling, Terry, Leeper, Bass...just to name a few. :)